With demand for low and no alcohol drinks continuing to rise, some bartenders are getting creative with their pints and combining beverages like never before – to mixed reactions from pub-goers.

One pub in Dublin has raised eyebrows rather than glasses with the introduction of a new ’60/40′ pint of Guinness.

The Palmerstown House Pub debuted the new tipple on its Instagram page, explaining that the pint has ‘all of the Guinness character’ but is ‘just a little lighter’ than a pint of fully alcoholic stout.

The ’60/40′ contains approximately 60 per cent Guinness 0.0 and 40 per cent normal Guinness, which has 4.2 per cent alcohol content.

‘Great for when you’re in the mood for a pint but with a little less alcohol,’ the pub said

before clarifying that the drink ‘is not a 0.0 option’, which means it is not suitable for teetotals.

However, some punters have expressed strong feelings about the concoction, with many against such a drink.

One commenter on Instagram branded the idea ‘a load of nonsense’ while another said it ‘should be illegal’.

A third declared such a mix of Guinness is ‘blasphemy’ and another commenter wrote: ‘Who the hell wants to have to buy drinks to get drunk in this economy?’

However, some pointed out that the drink is akin to a ‘Guinness shandy’ or joked that it was ‘semi-skimmed Guinness’.

‘Few drinking this in the pub I work in, calling it a Gandi (Guinness shandy),’ one person wrote.

Others recalled the existence of the mid-strength Guinness which was first launched in 2012, but has now been discontinued.

Guinness Mid-Strength had just 2.8 per cent ABV and were introduced to allow drinks giant Diageo to take advantage of a 50 per cent duty tax discount on beers at 2.8 per cent or below that the UK government introduced that year.

Those who were in favour of the 60/40 drink declared it was a ‘genius’ move by the pub and a ‘marketing win’.

‘2 per cent(ish) beers are the future,’ one person said, while another added: ‘I’ve asked for this in a few pubs and been looked at like I was a mentalist! Great to see you making it an actual thing.’

‘I would drink hundreds of them. HUNDREDS! (Also low-alcoholic beer is great for the summer or when you generally don’t want to get plastered on a Tuesday,’ a third person said.

Guinness launched its popular 0.0 version in 2020, but had to recall the product shortly after due to a contamination issue, later re-releasing it in 2021 after the problems were resolved.

Sales of Guinness 0.0 cans have been booming since it launched and this year, Ocado sales of the non-alcoholic version of the stout outstripped the original for the first time.

In September, the Mail on Sunday revealed that 53 per cent of Guinness deliveries from the UK’s largest online-only supermarket are now of the alcohol-free variant.

The brewer sells almost £50 million worth of Guinness 0.0 in shops and online supermarkets every year – about a fifth of its total off-sales market, according to researcher NIQ.

It’s now the nation’s best-selling alcohol-free beer. In the pub, the traditional variety – with 4.2 per cent alcohol by volume – is still the UK’s king of beers, accounting for an estimated one in nine of all pints sold.

Last year, Guinness 0.0 was introduced on draught for the first time – as the stout’s popularity soared thanks to viral pubs like The Devonshire in Soho, London.